lewytown
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well, the N.H. Fighting Spirit came to Lewiston, and played their two games against Lockport Express (NY) split, lost the first game 3-2 won the second 5-2. Have to say it was pretty good hockey, (based on not having a team here for three years) it felt good watching live hockey again.The team was a little spooked on Friday night, plating in front of 850 fans (which are used to approx. 50 fans) and settled down on Sunday with about 450 fans. As the owner spoke to the media, he was stating that this fall as the team moves here to it's new venue (going from a 600 seat rink to a 3,700 seat arena), ther is talk along with a NA3EHL team, they are in talks with the ECHL in bringing in a D-1 tier team as well using the Spirit as a feeder system.
So in saying, if everything falls into place, we might go from nothing for three years, to TWO teams in the same season. that would be sweet. We will be the L-A (Lewiston, Auburn) Fighting Spirit and I guess we wait and see who, and /or which team is re-locating from the ECHL.
Its not a team from the ECHL, the second team would be a tier 2 team from the NAHL, which is a team thats a bit higher than what you saw this past weekend, based on what I can tell, pretty sure this is going to happen and definitely has some traction...just trying to finalize logistics as most teams in the NAHL are based in the midwest so they are working on making an East Coast Division...so basically the
NA3EHL would be a feeder potentially to the NAHL team